Nursing-bottle holder



Oct. 8, 1929. H. H. GANSON NURSING BOTTLE HOLDER Filed May 11. 1926 Patented Oct. 8, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOWARD H. GANSON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORTO THE HYGEIA NURSING I BOTTLE 00., OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK NURSING-BOTTLE HOLDER Application filed May 11,

This invention relates to a nursing-bottle holder of the kind used in cradles and baby carriages to prevent the bottle from rolling or slipping out of place while the infant is feeding.

Its object is the provision of a holder of this nature in which all parts are substantially in the same plane, to render the device flat and suitable for compact mailing or other transportation.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side View of the holder with a nursing bottle therein. Figure 2 is a front view of the device. Figure 3 is a front view of a modified construction of the holder.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The holder is preferably bent from a single piece of spring-wire, and, in its preferred form, comprises an arched base-bar 10 forming a two-point bearing for the holder, and substantially upright bars 11 rising from the end portions of the base-bar and each connected with it by a coil 12 located in the angle between said parts. Each side bar 11 is doubled on itself to form a depending resilient arm or clasp 18, these arms being curved to conform to the bottle 14 and closely embrace it, as shown. The clasping arms preferably extend to the base-bar 10, or nearly so, to guard the infants fingers from injury.

The coils 12 give the side bars and their arms 13 the necessary resilience to permit the easy insertion of a nursing bottle in the holder, while at the same time gripping the bottle firmly enough to prevent its slipping out of the holder and to allow it to be placed and held in a more or less tilted position as its contents are consumed.

As illustrated in the drawings the base bar, side bars, clasping arms and spring coils, constituting the holder, are all substantially in the same plane, rendering the holder Hat and so compact that it can be mailed in an envelope, if desired. As many nursing bottles and such holders are sold through the mails, this is a desirable feature.

As a modification of the device, the coils may be located at the upper bend of the side 1926. Serial No. 108,306.

bars 11, as shown at 15 in Fig. 3 or, if desired, such coils may be arranged at both ends of the side bars, such additional coils being shown by dotted lines at 16 in Figure 2.

The clasping arms extend a sullicient dis tance above and below the horizontal diameter of the nursing bottle to prevent objectionable tilting of the holder on the bottle.

As the holder can be formed from a single piece of wire, it has not only the advantages of compactness and lightness, but it can be produced at small cost.

I claim as my invention 1. A nursing bottle holder, comprising a substantially U-shaped member bent from a single piece of wire and including an arched base-bar forming spaced bearing points at its ends, upright side bars rising from opposite ends of the base-bar, and resilient clasping arms depending inwardly from the upper ends of said side bars and adapted to embrace the body of the bottle, the clasping arms being free to .move laterally toward and from the side bars and terminating at their lower ends adjacent to the base-bar.

2. A nursing bottle holder, comprising a substantially U-shaped member bent from a single piece of wire and including an archer base bar forming spaced bearing points at its endsrupright side bars rising from opposite ends of the base-bar, resilient clasping arms depending inwardly from the upper ends of said side bars and adapted to embrace the body of the bottle, and spring coils connecting the side bars with the base-bar, the clasping arms being free to expand and con tract about the bottle and terminating at their lower ends adjacent to the base bar.

HOlVAR-D H. GANSON.

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